President Biden has rescinded a withdrawal order given by former President Donald Trump in the last weeks of his presidency and is once again deploying U.S. special forces to fight terrorists in Somalia.

Four officials told the New York Times that the order ‘largely reverses’ Trump’s withdrawal of nearly 700 troops that had been deployed to Somalia to fight the Islamist terror group Al Shabab, which is affiliated with al Qaeda.

“Together, the decisions by Mr. Biden, described by the officials on the condition of anonymity, will revive an open-ended American counterterrorism operation that has amounted to a slow-burn war through three administrations,” the Times noted. “The move stands in contrast to his decision last year to pull American forces from Afghanistan, saying that ‘it is time to end the forever war’.”